One of my favorite times of the year at Epcot is the Food & Wine Festival. Tasting some of the best food and drink from more than 30 countries plus the great chef demo sessions makes it heaven on earth for a Foodie like me. Last year Disneyland Resort exported the concept to California Adventure,… Read More »Disneyland Resort Food & Wine Festival
Kevin Yee has a great rundown on the new games designed by the CMU ETC silicon valley branch students at the exit to Spaceship Earth. Each contains an interesting vision of the future. Nice to see Imagineering tapping the minds of these talented college students. I visited the area last weekend and was able to… Read More »Epcot’s Spaceship Earth gets new post-show
Winners of the ‘Webby Awards’ were announced this week. From the Disney camp, one of the two properties nominated won. ‘Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony‘ from Movies.com won for the Best Comedy: Long Form or Series, Online Film & Video for 2007 in the annual People’s Voice voting. "The Webby Awards honors the outstanding… Read More »Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony Wins Webby
Cartoonbrew has been good enough to post two video clips of Neal Gabler talking about his biography of Walt Disney. It sounds like a great festival this year and definitely one of the things I miss not being in the Los Angeles area any more.
416 Film has produced a fan mash-up trailer of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and The Muppets.
Eric Stoltz!Brilliant!
This is not Tarantino’s first encounter with the Muppet’s. He made a cameo appearance in "The Muppets Wizard of Oz".
See also Heat Fozzy, another mash-up trailer. Finally, don’t watch the Pirates Of The Caribbean mash-up below the cut.
Over on SciFi Wire Thomas Haden Church, who’s in that other little summer movie, talks about his experiences providing the voice for Buttons, a rabbit from Disney Animation Studios future release "American Dog". "They hired me a couple of years ago, and [we] went through, God, at least a year and a half of them… Read More »Thomas Haden Church talks American Dog
Have I mentioned that I love the internet. Growing up I would have done just about anything to have ride simulators like these for my favorite Disney attractions. Now TheMagical has released four ride simulators for four e-tickets at the Disneyland Paris Resort. Pretend you’re the cast member in charge at Space Mountain, Tower of… Read More »Disneyland Paris ride simulator games!
Created in the Trainz railroad simulator universe, this is a recreation of the Walt Disney World monorail system. It includes an incredibly detailed recreation of the monorail’s control systems and the Contemporary Hotel with the ride through lobby station as well. Pretty incredible!